Professor Tara Wallace: This Weekend at the Jane Austen Society of North America
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It was a cold and wet, absolutely miserable day. This could be the start to a novel, but definitely not a good start to your day. Nevertheless, I and thousands of others crowded the metro to get to the National Mall for the Library of Congress’s National Book Festival yesterday. Yet there was a reason…
On October 2, GW English hosted “American Literature, Women’s Writing, Willa Cather Studies: The Work of Ann Romines. Full details of the event can be read here. Below are some photos from the successful event. Thanks to all who attended! Professor Ann Romines (pictured here with GW English PhD Charmion Gustke) retired this year after…
Writer Jabari Asim will read from his book We Can’t Breathe: On Black Lives, White Lies, and the Art of Survival, March 7th, in Gelman 702 at 7:00 pm. Asim is the author of six books for adults and nine books for children. He was an editor and columnist for the Washington Post and editor in chief of The…
Writer Azar Nafisi will read from her work on Tuesday, April 29th at 7:30 pm as part of the Jenny McKean Moore series. The talk is in the Marvin Center, Room 407. Ms. Nafisi is the author of Reading Lolita in Tehran and Things I’ve Been Silent About. Her talk will focus on her new…
Join the GWU English department on November 17th at 7:30 PM in Gelman 702, for Jung Yun’s fiction reading. The newest and most welcome addition to our creative writing faculty, Jung Yun is the author of SHELTER, published by Picador in 2016 and long-listed for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize, as well as…
Join us on Monday for a screening of The Line Has Shattered, a documentary on the 1963 Vancouver Poetry Conference with the Director, Robert McTavish. Where: Gelman Library, Room 214 2130 H Street, Washington, DC 20052 When: 7 p.m. – 9 p.m. RSVP Required. Email cathye@gwu.edu “The Line Has Shattered is an invaluable teaching tool as well as a…